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Where the Bodies Are Buried

Armored personnel carriers roamed the Falls Road and helicopters hovered overhead; local residents removed street signs to disorient British patrols, and rattled the lids of trash bins to sound the alarm. . It was two o'clock. Officials at the Times ...

www.newyorker.comMarch 9, 2015

Five Practical Uses for "Spooky" Quantum Mechanics

His results, now called Bell's Theorem, effectively proved that quantum properties like entanglement are as real as the moon, and today the bizarre behaviors of quantum systems are being harnessed for use in a variety of real-world applications ...

www.smithsonianmag.comDecember 1, 2014

Revisiting the Show That Launched Alexander McQueen's Career

“I've always wanted to go to Spain, to some desolate place where there are no clocks. No doubt it helped that McQueen was a lifelong East Ender who claimed to have had a relative who'd worked for the Kray twins, notorious East End gangsters....

Roelofs, who came into the game 3 of 30 on 3-pointers in her past 10 games — she was hitting 42.6 percent for the previous 14 games — hit three in the first half, including one that beat the shot clock mere seconds before halftime. The sophomore ...

www.winonadailynews.comFebruary 23, 2015

Wakie: would you like to be woken up by a stranger?

The modern alarm has come a long way since the tinny wind-up twin bell, invented in the 18th century. Sleepers can now be gently roused from their Wakie aims to change all that. The new app, the brainchild of an Armenian developer, and recently ...

www.telegraph.co.ukFebruary 4, 2015

Country Day's Jonas Gray graces SI cover, then Patriots' bench

Sunday's 34-9 victory over the Lions. He apparently overslept Friday when his cell phone battery (and alarm clock) reportedly died five days after his 201-yard, four-touchdown breakout in Indianapolis. Meanwhile, New England showed off its passing ...